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Howe's complete ball-room hand book : containing upwards of three hundred dances, including all the latest and most fashionable dances, 1858 / by Elias Howe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Elias, 1820-1895, author.
- Series:
- Gender. Identity and social change.
- Gender. Identity and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Ballroom dancing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (118 pages)) : illustrations (black and white).
- Other Title:
- Complete ball-room hand book
- Place of Publication:
- 1858 /
- Boston : Brown, Taggard & Chase, Publishers, [1858]
- Summary:
- To demonstrate the authority of this manual, the publisher claims the author to be American inventor, Elias Howe. Similar to many other dance manuals published throughout the nineteenth century, this book is a publisher's compilation of other sources. The book begins with a description of ballroom etiquette, dress, appropriate music, and rules for prompters. The manual continues with discussion of the era's most popular dances including quadrilles, waltz, polka, schottisch, gorlitza, polka mazurka, country dances, and figures for forty-two "French Fancy Cotillons," (also known as the cotillon or German), a group dance performed as a series of party games, usually to waltz music.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: RS M97M T.
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018. Digitized from a copy held by the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and made available by Adam Matthew Digital.
- Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on July 9, 2018).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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